Super Charming Handmade Painted Tin Railroad Houses - Sold Individually choppy seascape darker is 1 5/8" diameter

darker is 1 5/8" diameter

There is an old chip or chink at the base of the cage

These can be configured into molecules/sculptures via wooden dowels of shorter and longer lengths as well as coiled springs

I've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty

Perhaps there is some loss of padding that once existed on the bridge

Super Charming Handmade Painted Tin Railroad Houses - Sold Individually choppy seascape darker is 1 5/8" diameterSo sweet! I don't know the history of these great old little tin houses, but I think likely they were part of a model railroad, and I love whoever made them. Perhaps best are the crossed metal strips in each of the cutout windows, which appear to be carefully welded into place on the inside, but it's also hard to beat the perfectly imperfect hand painted doors on their fronts and great color schemes overall (that yellow roof especially!) And the roofs